Southwood Farm‍

In 2008, Arne Maynard redesigned the garden. The entrance leads into the Front Court, where, protected by original stone walls and espaliered crab apples, yew topiary defines the space, with borders planted with a combination of roses, Phlox, Thalictrum and other herbaceous plants. An orchard leads into the kitchen garden, where vegetables happily rub shoulders with cut flowers and soft fruit is grown in individual wooden fruit cages.

Cadhay‍

The two-acre garden, which wraps round the house and medieval stew ponds, dates from the early 20th century. Topiarised yews strut across the lawn below the Long Gallery, double herbaceous borders lead down to the ponds and the woodland gardens beyond. The kitchen garden has been triumphantly brought back to life by being partially let out as carefully controlled allotments.

Kentisbeare House

The garden, designed by Libby Russell, starts with a woodland garden from where a walk round the lake leads to a newly-planted arboretum. On one side of the house a lawn, flanked with elegant squares of pleached limes, runs down to a curved ha-ha giving views across the lake. Elsewhere a terrace gives onto lawns and, beyond, box hedges and yew pyramids, lies a formal canal, with mixed, exuberantly-planted borders on each side.